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Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green was formed as a civil parish from the Bethnal Green hamlet in Stepney ancient parish. 1889 it became part of the County of London. 1900 it became a metropolitan borough. 1965 it was abolished and merged into the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. See Simon de Montfort for an explanation of the image.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green

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Bethnal Green Library war memorial

On our first visit there was no plaque, but the 'ghost' marks on the plinth s...

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Bethnal Green Town Hall

Borough of Bethnal Green This stone was laid Sept. 23rd 1909 by the Mayor A. ...

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Burnham Estate

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, Burnham Estate This stone was laid by ...

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Diss Street re-housing scheme

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Diss Street Re-housing Scheme This comm...

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Lenin Estate / Parmiter Street Housing

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme This ...

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Other Subjects

Norman Harry Harding, OBE

Norman Harry Harding, OBE

Chairman of of the City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee in 1982. Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Albert Joseph Altman

Sir Albert Joseph Altman

Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. His portrait comes from an 1894 card celebrating his silver wedding anniversary.  It also has a portrait of his wife and of Tower Bridge.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Tom Goodway

Tom Goodway

Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Born New York City as Eleanor Roosevelt. Went to finishing school in England. In 1905 at her wedding to her distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was given away by her uncle, President Theodor...

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA

1 memorial
Daniel Robert Dale, FRIBA

Daniel Robert Dale, FRIBA

Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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H. H. Gallagher

H. H. Gallagher

DM2/112532 Private Royal Army Service Corps

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Battle of Trafalgar - Brentford war memorial

Battle of Trafalgar - Brentford war memorial

TW8, Kew Bridge Road, 56, The Express Tavern Public House

This plaque is a rare thing - a war memorial naming the enlisted men who died in a war prior to 1900. Admittedly it was erected quite re...

War dead | Other war
21 subjects commemorated
Robert Porter Cooper

Robert Porter Cooper

Passenger killed in the Handley Page V/1500 air-crash. Robert Porter Cooper was born on 5 September 1881 in Hammond, Russell, Ontario, Canada, the eldest of the six children of William Cooper (183...

Person, Tragedy, Canada, Ireland

1 memorial
T. Rooke
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H. T. Hill
War dead, WW1
1 memorial